"Martin Jay" <martin@spam-free.org.uk> wrote in message
news:kriok35hj6fo942pq0enmvt6mek587cpgl@4ax.com...
> [Note: crossposted to uk.telecom, uk.telecom.broadband and
> uk.telecom.voip]
>
> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/22/skype_down_again/>:
>
> "Up to 10,000 Skype customers have to change their SkypeIn number by
> 20 December, an email to customers advised last night.
>
> By way of recompense, it also offered affected punters a year's free
> service with voicemail and a grovelling apology.
>
> According to the email, Skype is having to 'return some of the 0207
> SkypeIn numbers' to their suppliers, though it makes no mention of
> why, or to whom, these numbers need to be returned.
>
> It seems numbers starting '020 7870' are affected, which Ofcom shows
> are allocated to a company called Gamma Telecom. Skype leased these
> numbers from an intermediary called GCI Telecom, who tell us that they
> are still in negotiations with Skype regarding the numbers, and have
> promised us a fuller explanation real soon now.
>
> Skype's message board is full of complaints from users about to lose
> their numbers, who have printed up business cards or even '...

plausible

> had to
> pulp a mailshot to 3,000 people, already stuffed, stamped, and ready
> to go, with first class stamps stuck on'."

but this is ramping.

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> Martin Jay